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Books

Death of the soul Christopher Booker The Older Hardy Robert Gittings (Heinemann E6.95) The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, Volume One (1840-1892) edited by Richard Little......

European Empiricist

Alastair Forbes Memoirs Jean Monnet (Collins £13) L'Etonnement d'Etre: Journal 1939-1973 Nerve Alphand (Paris, Fayard FF59) Roy Jenkins's claim, in his brief foreword to Richard......